12/29/25

Friday, I met my goal for Catfish Cthulhu with 1030 tent/515 full x stitches and 1.82% complete.

Saturday, I met my goal for Together We Stand from HAED with 1076 tent/538 full x stitches and 3.14% complete.

Sadly, there is a bunch of off white/gray in the bottom left of the stitched part that you can't see.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next as I try to finish the main part of the design so all the personalization and beading can be my 2026 goal.

12/24/25

 One more goal down, two that I'm planning to accomplish and one that probably won't be completed.

I met my goal for Our Path of Light from Unconventional XStitch with 1076 tent/538 full stitches.  It's now 2.49% complete.

I struggled with this one when I started it since it felt super confetti heavy.  It got better as I added this year's stitches.

Catfish Cthulhu, also from Unconvention XStitch is out now but I've also been trying to add lots of stitches to the shop model I've been working on.

12/22/25

 I had a fairly productive weekend!  

I met my goal for Mary Gypson 1828 from Whilst Iris Naps with 517 stitches.

Realistically, I should have just stitched to the upper right corner since it wasn't far but I was ready to move on. 

Summer Moon from Plum Street Samplers was next.  I met my goal for it with 506 stitches.

I'm feeling better about the color of the moon with other colors added.  I may have to change the white stripes of the flag though since the called for just looks dirty.

Our Path of Light from Unconventional XStitch is out next.

12/20/25

 I've met my goal for Sea Witch with 1166 tent/583 full x stitches and 40.26% complete.

Besides the dragon's face, I've finally found the witch's face at the bottom right corner of this page.

12/18/25

 I've met my goal for Her Private Garden with 1178 tent/589 full x stitches and 6.87% complete.

I've also met my December goal for SS Daybreak with 1104 tent/552 full x stitches and 3.57% complete.

I've added stitches to March's Window View in Stitches and Sea Witch is out to meet it's goal for December.

12/16/25

I've added another 1230 tent/615 full x stitches to Warrior Alice who is now at 68.62% complete.  Could I have completed my monthly goal of 2000 tent stitches?  Yes.  But when I picked Alice back up this week I had already met my 2025 goal and didn't want to make my stitchy bug any unhappier than it already is.

Since I finished Loneliness of Autumn, I've also started March's Window View in Stitches from Stitches and Cutz as a shop model for Hearltland Quilting and Stitching.  

I haven't gotten as far as I would like but I kept catching myself scrolling the internet so it was time to move onto something else.

This morning I started adding some stitches to Her Private Garden.  I think that annual goal has already been met as well so anything else is just a bonus.

 

12/9/25

 Finish!

12/4/25

 I've finished pages 28 and 34 of Loneliness of Autumn with 97.02% complete.

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I had lots of help 

Loneliness of Autumn will remain out to finish the remaining 3500 stitches.

12/1/25

Sunday morning, I met my goal on Ms. Gothica II from Tilton crafts with 1032 tent/518 full x stitches and 1.85% complete

Then, I pulled out Sarah Sanderson from The Sampler House and met my goal there with 550 stitches.

Then, I pulled out my kit for Mirabilia's Snow Queen and started it with 130 stitches for our first snow on 11/28.  My intention is to add at least 100 stitches for every day we see snow.  We've gotten snow the last four days so I'm a little behind.

I'm stitching with the called for colors except the Waterlilies.  I've converted those to HDF.  This is on Wicked Garden from Colour Cascades Fabrics which is what I also stitched the Sleigh on.  I think the color is awesome since I was intending it to look like the northern lights.  Here's a picture from a couple weeks ago.

and my start

I've pulled out Loneliness of Autumn this morning to work towards a finish.

 

11/29/25

 I've been remiss is keeping up with my progress for the last couple of weeks.

I've met my goal for Voodoo in Violet with 1138 tent/569 full x stitches and 2.6% complete

US Quaker Flag from the Vivster got 761 stitches and is now 6.6% complete

And I've been working on Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler for about the last week trying to get the central garden at the bottom of the sampler complete.  It took 2151 stitches but it is done.

11/20/25

 I've met my 2025 goal for No Place Like Home from Unconventional XStitch with 1088 tent/544 full cross stitches and 1.09% complete.

Voodoo in Violet is next.

11/19/25

 I've met my November stitch goal for Sea Witch with 1054 tent/527 full x stitches and 39.86% complete.

I love that you can see the top of the dragon's face coming in with just a couple of colors.

No Place Like Home from Unconventional XStitch is out next.

11/17/25

 Last night, I finished page 3 of Her Private Garden from HAED and met my November stitch goal with 1248 tent/624 full x stitches and 6.56% complete.  I've also met my full stitch goal for 2025.

Sea Witch is out next.

 

11/16/25

 I've finished page 28 of Warrior Alice and met my November stitch goal for her with 2340 tent/1170 full x stitches and 67.79% complete.

I doubt I'll get another page finished this year but there are way few stitches left to finish in 2026.

11/11/25

 I didn't add a lot to SS Daybreak to meet my Oct/Nov goals with 2026 tent/1013 full x stithches and 3.42% complete, but I did make it across page 4 so counting next month will hopefully be optional.

Warrior Alice is out next.

11/10/25

 

I've finished page three of SS Daybreak from HAED, now 3.38% complete.

Thankfully, this tree, at least in this row of pages is complete and the next page is mostly one color of block stitching.  There's not a lot of this month's goal left to go so I'll at least get page 4 set up so counting will be optional.

11/9/25

 November goal met for Loneliness of Autumn with 5128 tent/2564 full x stitches and 95.92% complete. 

4844 stitches to go in December. 

SS Daybreak is out next.

11/4/25

 Last night, I finished pages 27 and 33 of Loneliness of Autumn which brought it to 93.35% complete

11/2/25

 Before the end of October,  I met my goal for Serenity Harbor from By The Bay Needleart with 540 stitches

 and stitched 930 stitches on the Hagatha's Orange Hat.

This one will stay out so I can attempt to get the stitching done yet this month.  I guarantee nothing g when it comes to finishing it into a hat.

Loneliness of Autumn is out as I creep closer to a finish.

10/31/25

I've met my goal for Steamy Blue with 553 stitches.  

I was so close to finishing page 2 but it will wait until next time it comes out.  

Heritage Harbor from By the Bay Needleart has come out next.

 

10/29/25

 I thought meeting my goal for Jane Charlotte Wynn from the Scarlett House would take longer than it did, but here we are.  I added 547 stitches to meet my goal.

Steamy Blue from CrossStitch4Everyone is out next.  I don't remember if my past self realized that there was a counting error that was going to cause a problem or not, but it felt big enough that I've already spent an hour frogging a bunch of stitches so I can move them one stitch to the right.

10/27/25

 This is October's progress on Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler.  I've added 1788 stitches to the bottom garden.

I'd hoped t outline that bit on the right of this garden and possibly the central part, but it was not to be this month. 

Jane Charlotte Wynn is out next.

10/24/25

 I've met my goal on Best Friends MC with 2028 tent/1014 full x stitches and 1.74% complete.

I really enjoyed all the blue stitches but I'm looking forward to see more color appear for the lovely sunrise that is in the design.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next.

10/22/25

 

I picked SS Daybreak back up yesterday and added 1054 stitches to meet my September goal.  It's now 3.15% complete.

I'm really hoping to finish page 3 next month and get away from those trees and into pages of sky.

Best Friends MC is out now.

10/20/25

 I met up with the Cornhusker State Stitchers Saturday and we all stitched on Lady of the Flag from Mirabilia.  Well, they started it and I worked on my WIP.  I finished my goal for it yesterday with 718 stitches.  The picture isn't awesome as the DMC 712 that I added doesn't really show up.

Maybe next month for Veterans Day, I'll start Queen of Freedom to keep Lady of the Flag company.

10/19/25

 Since my last update, I've met a couple goals.

I've finally finished band 8 of Loara Standish

front

and back

I've met my August goal for SS Daybreak with 1036 tent/518 full x stitches and 3.01% complete

I started Hagatha's Orange Hat from Just Nan on 10/17/25

And I had a stitchy day yesterday with a couple of friends and we stitched on Lady of the Flag.  It was a new start for them but I pulled out my WIP instead of starting Queen of Freedom.

10/14/25

 This isn't something I've intended to work on so much this week, but here we are.  I've finished Fall Pumpkin Patch with 1724 stitches.

It and the other two unframed seasons from this series have some aging on the linen.  I think this weekend, I'm going to try soaking them in OxyClean to see if the discoloration will come out.  If it doesn't, well, eventually, they will be framed just the way they are.

10/12/25

 I've hit a couple of pretty big milestones on Loneliness of Autumn.  It is now 99.61% complete and there are only 9972 stitches to go.

I've pulled out my Fall Pumpkin Patch for some easy stitching.

10/11/25

 I've finished page 26 and 32 of Loneliness of Autumn.  It's now 89.24% complete.

I'm not done working on this one yet.  I've completed 2372 tent/1186 full x stitches so far this month.  To leave just 5000 tent stitches per month for November and December, I need to add another 2780 tent stitches which should put me just over 5000 tent stitches for October.  My house will be quiet for the next week or so which means my stitchy time has increased just a bit.  In a perfect world, I could get all those stitches done this weekend but I'm probably going to continue a bit into next week.

I have been making a little progress on Loara too.  I would really love to get band 8 finished this weekend too.

My Fall Pumpkin Patch has gotten a little attention during breaks at work.  I've had my stand set up on my desk and have added a few stitches, 10 minutes at a time.

10/5/25

I've met my October goal for Warrior Alice with 2080 tent /1040 full x stitches and 66.22% complete

Loara Standish is back out now as I attempt to finish band 8.  I only have three more leaves and three flowers to fill in.  I'm very excited to move onto another band.